Culture Quotes
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Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used to be reserved for sports stars, movie stars, and theater actors. Restaurants are in the firmament of today's common culture.
Danny Meyer
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.
Nainoa Thompson
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Mao Zedong
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As far as cities, I love London. I go to London very often because I think the young people there are very creative. I also love New York, of course, and the clash of different cultures you find there.
Nicki Minaj
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
Baz Luhrmann
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We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.
Dede Gardner
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New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
Patricia Marx
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There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it's nice to be able to bring Scotland and our culture and music to the screen.
Sam Heughan
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In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
Garry Trudeau
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People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology.
Chelsea Peretti
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Birkenstock desert boots have been a part of pop culture since the beatniks. I made such a fuzz about them being discontinued that the company send me an 'lifetime supply', which initially turned out to be seven pairs at two years apiece. They weren’t giving me very long. I think that’s why I gave up smoking.
Johnny Marr
Pretenders
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
Tamora Pierce
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Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for.
Orhan Pamuk
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We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
R. C. Sproul
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I think just the above things. I think I wanted to learn from both cultures. So, I think the music is a little more reflective of the... Catholic culture but the theology, obviously, is much more Reformational.
Keith Getty
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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.
Aziz Ansari
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Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.
Patricia Riggen
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Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means.
Albert Einstein